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Jeff Time: Day 10

I’m working nights lately. And that’s strange. I know most of you have jobs where you make money. Not me. I sleep all day and write and sing all night. I don’t even clock in. I just roll over.

And I feel lazy, but this morning at 7 (when I was going to bed) I told myself, “Remember, you have been working hard all night long so don’t feel guilty as if you aren’t accomplishing anything with your life, man.” Then I felt better and slept until 3.

The theme for today is “Negative Love Songs”. I just realized something. I’m like a negative-love-song-writing ninja. I don’t mean to boast but I sure can write songs that suck all the good parts out of love.

Is that something to be proud of? I feel a strange pride about my talent.

VIDEO:

Get a Wanderin’ Eye

(These are the correct lyrics that I didn’t exactly sing on the video)

I like you but I don’t like love

It’s a mean mean thing from Hell above

Why don’t you flutter far away?

Leave me out in the cold rain

Leave me out and don’t you wait

We’ve been through this too many times

Don’t you cry

Get a wanderin’ eye and follow it

Away from mine

You’ll be so free, won’t take you

Any time

Oh no, it won’t take long

Don’t you look at me like that

I’ll never take you back

I’ll never take you back

As far as you and I go

That door it is closed

Our door is closed

Don’t you cry

Get a wanderin’ eye and follow it

Away from mine

You’ll be so free, won’t take you

Any time

Oh no, it won’t take long

You shoulda’ been

You coulda’ been

But you woulda’ been

Somebody else

I like you but I don’t like love

It’s a mean mean thing from Hell above

Go on and flutter far away

This next one is the fourth song on Digital Dreams. It’s from the creep perspective (which is a very fun perspective to write in). I wrote it in character so when I sing it I get to blame the words on somebody else. That’s nice. It takes some of the weirdness out of the whole thing.